# need mass review for all packages before this feature is completed - '''DONE'''

# import of all of the ~1600 packages need to be finished

# import of all of the ~1600 packages need to be finished

# all of the packages need to be built

# all of the packages need to be built

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== Documentation ==

== Documentation ==

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TODO

== Release Notes ==

== Release Notes ==

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TeX Live 2008 is now introduced with improved packaging scheme that saves download bandwidth and disc size. It is based on upstream packaging metadata and an automated license audit is performed. Packages are now composed from schemes and collections to define a package set user needs to install to use a particular TeX Live feature.

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TeX Live 2012 is now introduced with improved packaging scheme that saves download bandwidth and disc size. It is based on upstream packaging metadata and an automated license audit is performed. Packages are now composed from schemes and collections to define a package set user needs to install to use a particular TeX Live feature.

* This feature has its own mailing list: [http://www.linux.cz/pipermail/texlive/]. Feel free to subscribe and post to this list.

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* <strike>See [[Talk:Features/TeXLiveLegalAudit]]</strike> As of Aug 30, 2012, there are no known legal issues remaining in TexLive2012.

Owner

Current status

Detailed Description

TeX Live uses uses its own classification of TeX packages which can be automated and used by packaging systems in various distributions. The packaging metadata that upstream provides allows to distinguish doc, source and runtime files which could then be packaged separately.

The package contains repo file for yum which contains TeX Live with binaries. After installing the release package do:

# yum clean all
# yum install texlive

if you don't have texlive already installed. Otherwise you can update your old TeX Live 2007 installation like:

# yum clean all
# yum update

This will install the basic TeX Live scheme. You can alternatively install any of these schemes:
texlive-scheme-basic
texlive-scheme-context
texlive-scheme-full
texlive-scheme-gust
texlive-scheme-medium
texlive-scheme-minimal
texlive-scheme-tetex
texlive-scheme-xml

There are possible clashes with applications packaged separately (such as
dvipdfmx, etc.) so we may want to discuss these conflicts with
respective fedora package maintainers to fix them. In case you are a
maintainer of such package please send me an email to me
so that we can sort it out on the TeX Live side. Generally the TeX
Live packages are preferred so I will grant access to them to maintainers
that owned the non-TeX Live package variant packaged separately.

User Experience

Users could use exactly the part of TeX they need without wasting disc space.

Dependencies

need to do a license audit - DONE

need mass review for all packages before this feature is completed - DONE

import of all of the ~1600 packages need to be finished

all of the packages need to be built

Contingency Plan

Stay stuck with TeX Live 2007.

Documentation

TODO

Release Notes

TeX Live 2012 is now introduced with improved packaging scheme that saves download bandwidth and disc size. It is based on upstream packaging metadata and an automated license audit is performed. Packages are now composed from schemes and collections to define a package set user needs to install to use a particular TeX Live feature.